Leslie Berliant

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Leslie Berliant writes on the topics of sustainability, the climate crisis, environmental health and corporate social responsibility for publications that include the LOHAS Journal, Sustainablog, Celsias, Personal News Network, the Santa Monica Mirror and others. She is a partner at BLUMOON Group, a marketing and communications company that specializes in cause and advocacy campaigns. She is a published poet with works featured in the anthologies Deliver Me and Big City Mantra, as well as the literary magazine Mo+Th. She currently lives in Santa Monica, California with her 15 year-old daughter where she will be co-hosting a series of salons called Verdecology, focused on helping people create more sustainable homes, work places and events.

Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.

There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.